Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long before Oxford undergraduettes and Düsseldorf schoolgirls were sable-calved too. German youth has developed a taste for soft French and Italian cheeses. And all over Western Europe this summer, the popular song was Petite Fleur-composed by a New Orleans clarinetist, recorded by a British jazz band, and bestselling in Germany...
...lieutenant general and back in restless retirement in Athens, began to rumble that prospective Cypriot President Makarios was making "too many concessions to Britain and the Turks." In reply, Makarios expelled from his Cyprus Reconstruction Front Fotis Papafotis, 26, former underground leader who lost a hand fighting the British. Papafotis, Makarios charged, was involved with a Grivas-backed group who were plotting the murder of Makarios and 50 of his supporters. As proof, the Archbishop exhibited an intercepted "assassination list" and a letter he said Grivas had written to Papafotis, urging replacement of Makarios with the more pliable Bishop Kyprianos...
...Love You." The son of a rich Ceylonese public servant whose devotion to the British Crown won him a knighthood in 1907, Banda had long steered a perilous course through the tricky tides of Asian politics. He was raised a Christian and educated at Oxford, where his debating skill earned him the admiration of his English classmate, Anthony Eden. But once back home, Banda renounced Christianity in favor of Buddhism, threw off Western dress in favor of long white sarongs, and plunged into the movement that was to bring Ceylon independence within the Commonwealth...
...gossip mills knew. One of his brightest flames, Sylvia Casablancas, 19, daughter of Mexican Moneybags Fernando Casablancas, disclosed that summer had brought her a love match with handsome French Tennistar Jean-Noel Grinda, 22. That still left the Aga linked with pretty Tracy Pelissier, 18, stepdaughter of British Moviemaker Sir Carol Reed, and the Aga's house guest in Cannes for a spell last summer. Tracy's mother spiked any thoughts of serious romance most effectively last week: she announced her daughter's troth to British Actor Edward...
Married. Klaus Emil Fuchs, 47, British atomic spy who was released from prison three months ago, flew to East Germany, where he was rewarded with a job as deputy director of the East German Central Institute for Atomic Physics; and Greta Keilson, 53, widow; he for the first time; in East Berlin...